NEWS

DAWN CONSTRUCTION WINS £60MILLION SCHOOLS CONTRACT
30 August 2007

Left to right: Donny McKinnon, Davis Langdon, Ray Eve, Dawn Construction, West Lothian Council's Executive councillor for education Andrew Miller, and Gavin McKie HOCHTIEF PPP Solutions (UK) Ltd

Dawn Construction has won a £60million construction contract together with the facilities management contract for two new secondary schools at Armadale Academy and Deans Community School, Livingston.

The contract – as part of HDM Schools Solutions Ltd, a consortium comprising Dawn Construction, Hochtief PPP Solutions and Pacific Partners LLP - adds to Dawn’s growing portfolio and profile in the PPP/PFI market.

Dawn has also secured the facilities management and lifecycle contract for each school which, together with the construction contract, will increase the project total to £100m for the construction firm.

The deal comes just days after the opening of Stanley Primary School in Ardrossan, part of the £80million North Ayrshire Schools PFI. Greenwood Academy in Dreghorn will open to pupils in October.

Building on this education experience Dawn Construction is currently bidding for the £80m Inverclyde Schools PFI as part of the Inverclyde Community Partnership consortium, together with Laing Investment and Barr Construction.

As part of the West Lothian Schools project Armadale Academy and Deans Community High School will be demolished and replaced with modern, state of the art buildings, enhanced by a wide range of new facilities including additional classrooms, games hall, dance studios, fitness rooms, swimming pools, full size all-weather synthetic pitches with outdoor changing facilities customised to meet the needs of local communities. The schools have a combined total of 2,300 pupils.
Construction work on the two schools has now started and is expected to be completed by August 2009.

Ray Eve, Managing Director of Dawn Construction Ltd said: “As a major shareholder in HDM Schools solutions we are looking forward to working alongside West Lothian Council to deliver two schools that we can all be proud of, and adding these to our expanding PFI portfolio.

“We have worked hard in this sector and have successfully become an influential player by carefully selecting both our key partners, and the projects we bid for.”
Dawn Construction is now one of Scotland’s top construction companies with PFI experience.